Break up run-on compound sentences, and join fragments into complete sentences when possible.

Do your best to make coherent sentences out of the speaker’s speech patterns. It is perfectly acceptable to start a sentence with ‘And’ or ‘But’ in CrowdSurf transcripts.

So tomorrow we will see the Challenger- >> Yes, the Challenger Jobs Report.

Spoken: >> But before I can do the install, I-> >> Mm-hm. >> Have to first make sure the server is up- >> Mm-hm. >> And running and then

Transcribe as: But before I can do the install, I have to first make sure the server is up and running and then

Spoken: Now you can see that once again we've got, you know, the preview going on if I click submit you can see that it does not ah, make uh, it, it doesn't make a request, and query string, you can see actually, that when I click submit, uh actually, it's gonna, you know, make the network request in the background.

Transcribe as: Now you can see that once again we've got the preview going on.If I click submit you can see that it does not make a request, and query string.You can see actually, that when I click submit, actually, it's gonna make the network request in the background.

Exception: If specifically shown on-screen in a title or a line of code, then these punctuation marks may be included.

I was talking to him and he said yeah, I'd love to go see The Wizard of Oz.

Silence, Sounds and Non-Verbal noises

All plot-relevant audio content should be recorded in your transcript.

Use one tag per uninterrupted period of silence, sound, music, or non-verbal noises.

Use bbb (for BLANK_AUDIO) when there is no audio, silence, or non-relevant sounds (like static) for 2 seconds or more in a clip.

Use mmm (for MUSIC) to indicate music and singing in the media. Do not use this for background music played simultaneously with speaker. Insert a music tag when there is only music or song for 2 seconds or more in the media.

2. Accepted Slang

Our system will automatically correct the following slang terms, transcribe them as spoken. Example: speaker says "kinda", transcribe as kinda not kind of. If they say "kind of", transcribe as kind of.

If not included in this list, please transcribe the full, correct word as shown in your favorite dictionary. Example: speaker says ‘em, always transcribe as them.

Section Five- Sound Quickies

Sound Quickies are for representing nonverbal parts of media. There are several rules to follow;

Use sound tags to indicate sound, noise, music, or periods of silence in transcripts. One tag per section of uninterrupted sound.

Transcribe all plot-relevant sounds, music, blank audio to describe the audio content of the media. For example, if the HIT is primarily a gun fight with the musical soundtrack played simultaneously in the background, transcribe [NOISE] for the gunfight, ignore the music.

Type short code in all lowercase letters mmm and all Tags in uppercase [MUSIC]. All else will be incorrect.

Do not add punctuation after standalone sound tags.

Rule

Instruction

Example

Blank Audio

Blank Audio tags are imperative for correct timing of video captions.

Use when there is silence, no plot-relevant audio, or just static in a HIT. Example: If a professor is flipping pages, typing, writing on the board, or clicking through slides this should be blank audio, not sound.

Verify that the video has loaded correctly and that computer audio settings are correct.

OR use [BLANK_AUDIO] to indicate a lapse of 2 or more seconds or more of no speech.

bbb or [BLANK_AUDIO]

Spoken: So now you see I’ll add in twenty pixels (typing noise for 1 second) of padding on each side (typing noise for 4 seconds) there you go

On screen: padding: 20px;

Transcribe as: So now you see I’ll add in 20px of padding on each side. [BLANK_AUDIO] There you go.

Indiscernible Audio

(Try to use as rarely as possible)

Notation can be used to replace one word, or a phrase that cannot be heard.

Section Ten- Sample Transcripts!

Yesterday at around twelve o clock I was, um, visiting, uh, doctor smith’s office and he wa- was saying, “exercise is an important part of one's cardiovascular regimen“

Yesterday, at around 12 o'clock I was visiting Dr. Smith's office. And he was saying exercise is an important part of one's cardiovascular regimen.

Speaker Change Flags

Contact information

Speaker 1: Let's welcome Mary to the call. Mary, how do you spell your last name?

Speaker 2: W O R T H I N as in Nancy G T O N.

Speaker 1: And what’s your email address?

Speaker 2: M Worthington at Hotmail dot com.

Let's welcome Mary to the call. Mary how do you spell your last name?

>> W-O-R-T-H-I-N as in Nancy, G-T-O-N.

>> And what’s your email address?

>> Mworthington@hotmail.com.

Numbers

Percentages

Monetary amounts

We've seen a fifty percent increase in our market share, representing over four million dollars in potential revenue

We've seen a 50% increase in our market share, representing over $4 million in potential revenue.

Numbers

Slang

Capitalization of proper nouns

Don't you mean 5 point 1 million? Or are you leavin’ out latin America?

Don't you mean 5.1 million, or are you leaving out Latin America?

Sentence breakpoints

On-screen formatting

Computer Coding

Camel Case

We give you the code for actually downloading the, uh, the image so its called download image, you give it a context and a url that you want to download, and it goes and does a bunch of magic to download things

Shown on screen: (line of code) public static Url downloadImage

We give you the code for actually downloading the image. So it's called downloadImage. You give it a context and a URL that you want to download. And it goes and does a bunch of magic to download things.

On-screen formatting

Math variables

Sound tags

The first property [clears throat], states that A to the N times a to the m equals a to the N plus M, and is often referred to as the product rule.

Shown on screen:

Product Rule: An x Am = A(n+m)

The first property [COUGH] states that A to the n x A to the m is equal to A to the (n+m), and is often referred to as the Product Rule.

Speaker change flags

Speaker Interruptions

Punctuation

Spelling consistency

Research unknown terms

Speaker 1: Will we be discussing ciphertexts this semester? Or is- (interrupted by second speaker)

Speaker 2: Cypher texts, also known as encoded or encrypted information will be part of our discussion on touring machines and the different algorhythms that are used in a computers cpu.

Will we be discussing ciphertexts this semester? Or is-

>> Ciphertexts, also known as encoded or encrypted information, will be part of our discussion on Turing machines and the different algorithms that are used in a computer's CPU.

Sound tags

Slang

(violin note for 2seconds) Okay, just went a little bit sharp. Now I’m gonna give a tug for a little slack. And test it again. (violin note for 4 seconds) Perfect.

[SOUND] Okay, just went a little bit sharp. Now I’m gonna give a tug for a little slack. And test it again. [SOUND] Perfect.